In article <32djkp$hbs at charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, dopearso at magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Douglas C Pearson) writes:
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From: dopearso at magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Douglas C Pearson)
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Subject: Re: Protein structure from scratch?
Date: 11 Aug 1994 16:29:13 GMT
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>Floeckner Hannes <floeckn at wst.edvz.sbg.ac.at> wrote:
>>I wonder what you mean with '65% accurate model'. This "percentage correct"
>>measure is, as far as I know, always used in connection with algorithms for
>>the prediction of secondary structure (like the EMBL prediction server, xy%
>>of the residues assigned the correct secondary structure). But these secondary
>>structure predictions don't give a 3D model of the protein.
Fred Cohen showed a long time ago that packing of a four helical boundle
1. Presnell SR; Cohen FE.
Topological distribution of four-alpha-helix bundles.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of
America, 1989 Sep, 86(17):6592-6.
and several other references
>>By the way, I don't think 65% is a good result.
>Rost and sander showed that proteins are approximately 82% correct
(within a family) So it is not that bad.
>i believe the connection with secondary structure is correct (though i'd be
>happy if somebody could confirm that for me...i'm just a second-year grad
>student, for pete's sake!). i agree, that's not the best model in the world,
>but if it's a choice between knowing something about a protein's secondary/
>tertiary structure and knowing nothing, what are you going to take?
>this type of modeling is good as a starting point. nothing more.>
You really need to find a protein with some homology to get some idea
of the structure. Sec.Str itself is hardly good enough.
arne
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